Roberto Skyers
Track and field athlete, Olympic athlete
1991 –
Who is Roberto Skyers?
Roberto Skyers Pérez is a Cuban track and field athlete who competes in the sprinting events. He won the gold medal in the 200 metres at the 2011 Pan American Games. His personal bests are 10.29 seconds for the 100 metres and 20.24 seconds for the 200 m.
At the age of seventeen, he ran a national junior record of 20.24 seconds for the 200 metres that year and also ran a 100 metres best of 10.31 seconds. This represented a significant improvement upon his 2008 best of 21.65 seconds and led to athletics statisticians A. Lennart Julin and Mirko Jalava identifying him as one of the world's most promising sprinters. Skyers began competing internationally in 2009, making his debut at the ALBA Games, where he claimed the 200 m title. He ran in the Cuban 4×100 metres relay team at the 2009 Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics, but the quartet failed to finish the race. He claimed the 200 m national title at the Barrientos Memorial in June.
Having finished third at the 2010 Barrientos meet and improved his 100 m to 10.29 seconds, Skyers represented Cuba in that event at the 2010 Ibero-American Championships and went on to place fourth overall.
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- Born
- Nov 12, 1991
Camagüey - Also known as
- La Bala de Minas
- Nationality
- Cuba
- Profession
- Lived in
- Minas, Cuba
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on July 23, 2013
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